The Fatal Glass of Beer [1933]

Director:	Clyde Bruckman
Writer:	W.C. Fields

IMDB Rating:	6.9/10
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Collection:	50 Movie Pack Family Classics Collection
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Synopsis: The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Reaction: Pretty funny. Fields has some nice comic chops on him.

Personal Rating: 7/10

Select Cast and Crew

Clyde Bruckman	=>	Director
W.C. Fields	=>	Writer / Mr. Snavely

Artie Ortego	=>	Indian Chief ^(uncredited)
Balto	=>	Siberian Husky ^(uncredited)
Ernie Alexander	=>	Student Drinker ^(uncredited)
George Chandler	=>	Chester Snavely the wastrel son
George Moran	=>	Indian Chief ^(uncredited)
Gordon Douglas	=>	Student Drinker ^(uncredited)
Jack Cooper	=>	Officer ^(uncredited)
Junior Fuller	=>	Student Drinker ^(uncredited)
Marvin Loback	=>	Bartender ^(uncredited)
Richard Cramer	=>	Officer Posthlewhistle Canadian Mounted Police (as Rychard Cramer)
Rosemary Theby	=>	Mrs. Snavely
Ted Stroback	=>	Student Drinker ^(uncredited)

Random Trivia For This Title:

On his 2001 album 'Love And Theft', ^[?] Bob Dylan quotes Fields from this film when he sings in '{Lonesome Day Blues},' "well the road's washed out, the weather's not fit for man or beast!"
One of four shorts W.C. Fields made with Mack Sennett at Paramount.
In W.C. Fields' first sound film, The Golf Specialist (1930) there is a wanted poster of Fields which shows him in his "Fatal Glass of Beer" costume. It evidently was taken from an earlier stage presentation of the classic Fields sketch.